It is true that everyone desires a comfortable life. Of course, comfort brings ease, convenience, and gives a sense of security. There is nothing wrong with enjoying comfort, but if you build your life around just comfort, it will limit you and may even make you not to reach your full potentials. This is where resilience comes in. This is the ability to recover from a setback, or adapt to changes, and to keep going forward even in the presence of difficulties. This is one of the greatest qualities that anyone should build. This is because life may sometimes come with challenges, so you need to be prepared for it. Comfort may make life easier for a moment, but it is resilience that makes you to succeed in every season.
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You have to understand that resilience does not mean that there is no problem, it does not also mean absence of challenges, rather it is the ability to remain strong, hopeful, and focused even when challenges come. The people you celebrate as successful today also had the moments when they faced heavy challenges from life. In fact, some of them faced disappointing moments, rejections, failures, and criticism, but they still remained strong and continued until they achieved their goal. Success is not necessarily determined by absence of challenges, but by making a determination not to quit even when challenges come.
It is resilience that helps you to overcome failure. I once read a documentary about Thomas Edison, who was credited by many for the invention of the light bulb. According to the documentary, it was recorded that during the trial phase of his invention, he made a lot of attempts, totally about a thousand times. The truth is that this number of attempts and failures can easily discourage someone else from trying again. But he did not give up. After a lot of trials, he finally got the invention right. It was his resilience that kept him going even when failure looked like an ally to him. Resilient people do not see failure as a dead-end, but as something that can teach valuable lessons to give them a stepping-stone to achieve something bigger.
Resilience also helps you to build strong character. More often than not, comfort does not change someone, but challenges change them. Difficult experiences can teach patience, perseverance, courage, and character. When you face an obstacle and overcome, you will build more confidence in yourself because you will realise that you are actually stronger than you think you are. When you build character through resilience, it cannot be shaken easily, because it has been tested in real life situations. For someone who has passed through intense times, they would have built up themselves to become better.
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It is worthy to note that resilience also prepares you for change. Life is always full of change; like technological advancements, career change, relationship change, and many other changes. When you depend solely on familiar routines, you may find it difficult to cope when changes come. But resilient people are always flexible and ready to adopt. That is; instead of fighting the change that comes to them, they will look for new opportunities within it. Resilience will also help you to adjust and continue growing even when the situations seem uncertain.
Resilience has a way of moving you closer to your dreams. Your goals will require perseverance for it to be delivered. This is because there may be times when progress may feel slow, inspiration may even fade, or the challenges may seem overwhelming. At this point, you will need more than just motivation to keep you going, you will need perseverance, persistence, and resilience. This will give you the determination to continue even when things are not going the way you anticipated. Even when the journey becomes difficult, you will not easily give up because you have your attention on the destination and not just on the journey.
Your resilience can also inspire others. When others see you face difficult situations and overcome, they will be motivated and inspired to carry on with the same way. That is, your life will become a positive influence to others. By that, you have become a source of encouragement to the people you meet and even to the people around you.
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